IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa City based company Rantizo is making waves in the farming community with their new drone systems aimed at making crop dusting more efficient. “One of the overarching issues is population is growing but there are fewer people working in...

Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype sequence, from curiosity to irrational exuberance to overblown misfit. In reality, drones at first were a solution in search of a problem, and the recalibration and emerging rebirth is...

It was “breakthrough innovations that farmers can use” that Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig was in search of last week, as he visited Iowa City-based Rantizo. The drone company is focused on developing cost-effective fertilizer, herbicide or pesticide delivery...